Hello. I’m M.J. Piazza. As a longtime viewer of The Theorizer’s YouTube channel, a huge fan of How to Train Your Dragon, and a historical fiction author, I decided to try and tie one of my favorite films into the increasingly insane Mort Theory. To my regular readers, I’m mostly writing this as a letter …
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One thing that most people don’t realize is that life is currently really, really easy. Now obviously, it’s not easy for everyone. Poverty and illnesses and natural disasters and abusive families exist. But things like modern medicine, global trade routes, and all the post-Industrial Revolution inventions have made our lives easier than they have been at any …
I’m back, y’all! I need to stop apologizing for being gone, work has been insane recently, but your patience has been rewarded. This is one of the best snippets out of my fantasy book so far. For context, Maywin (the main character) and Cory (his dwarvish best friend) are staying at a church in the …
Every once in a while, I get so excited about a scene I’m working on that I can’t help but tell someone about it. Usually, this person is my mother, but every once in a while, I’ll tell one of my students. Not during English class, of course–my job is to teach, not promote my …
I’m currently 15,000 words into editing the rough draft, and I’ve stumbled across a scene that I simply cannot use. As you may remember, I changed the victim of the fae plague from hero Maywin’s mother to his brother Gregor. As you can imagine, this changes the dynamics between characters and several other things about …